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Who Should Lyddie Sign The Petition

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Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is about a girl that works in a mill. The working conditions at the mill are not very good. There is a petition going around for girls to sign that work at the mill for better working conditions. While some people think that Lyddie shouldn’t sign the petition because she could lose her job, Lyddie should sign the petition that Diana Goss Circulates because of the dangerous conditions and bad conditions at the boarding house. Lyddie should sign the petition because they need better working conditions. “Before she could think she was on the floor, blood pouring through the hair near her right temple…the shuttle, the blasted shuttle” (102). Lyddie replaced the shuttle in the right hand box and she wasn’t paying

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